Zarzuela in a sentence

Spanish radio and television have dedicated time to zarzuela in 1978, not least in a popular series of programs produced by TVE and entitled Antología de la zarzuela ("Zarzuela Anthology").

Recorded zarzuela From 1950 onwards, zarzuela prospered in a series of LP recordings from EMI, Hispavox and others, with worldwide distribution.

While the zarzuela featured, even glorified popular customs, festivals, and manners of speech, especially those of Madrid, something never found in a zarzuela is social criticism.

Zarzuela grande battled on at the Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid, founded by Barbieri and his friends in the 1850s.

Catalan zarzuela was turned little by little into what is called, in Catalan, teatre líric català ("Catalan lyric theater"), with a personality of its own, and with modernista lyricists and composers.

Despite some modifications the basic structure of the zarzuela remained the same: dialogue scenes, songs, choruses, and comic scenes generally performed by two actor-singers.

In spite of a success sustained over many years, his musical ambition took him to Madrid, where zarzuela had a higher profile.

Many well-known singers, including Victoria de los Angeles and Montserrat Caballé, have recorded albums of zarzuela songs and arias.

Musicians such as Antonio Rodríguez de Hita were proficient in the shorter style of works, though he also wrote a full-scale zarzuela with de la Cruz entitled Las segadoras de Vallecas (The Reapers of Vallecas, 1768).

Some years earlier, impresario José Tamayo worked a theatrical show of the same name which popularized pieces of zarzuela through several national and international tours.

Theater was introduced in Colombia during the Spanish colonization in 1550 through zarzuela companies.

The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of a Royal hunting lodge, the Palacio de la Zarzuela near Madrid, where, allegedly, this type of entertainment was first presented to the court.

The palace was named after the place called "La Zarzuela" because of the profusion of brambles ( zarzas ) that grew there, and so the festivities held within the walls became known as "Zarzuelas".

There are also many types of zarzuela in between the two named genres, with a variety of musical and dramatic flavours.

There have been no significant new works created since the 1950s; the existing zarzuela repertoire is costly to produce, and many classics have been performed only sporadically in recent years, at least professionally.

The zarzuela genre was innovative in giving a dramatic function to the musical numbers, which were integrated into the argument of the work.

This "theatre of an hour" had great success and zarzuela composers took to the new formula with alacrity.